Oblivion won't start

[Deleted1100999User]

Hi, I had installed oblivion and loaded a bunch of mods. I havethe GOTY edition. I had loaded unofficial patches for both the base game and the shivering isles. I had one timeplayed up to to the character creation screen but exited and added some more mods (the mod manager and OBSE). When I tried to start the game the screen would go black and stay that way until I ended the program via task manager. I did the long total uninstall process (couldn't find the uninstall reg info but everything else went fine). I reinstalled with NO mods and now I get the little box that says its detecting my settings. when thats done I hit the "play" button and it just sits there. No error message no activity whatsoever. I run windows 7 home premium 32 bit. All my specs are way above the needed and my drivers are current. My vid card is nvidia geforce 9600m gt 512mb. Can anyone help?

[bben46]

It sounds like you may have a corrupt registry entry due to an incomplete uninstall.

 

Here is a Link to Bbens Complete Uninstall/Reinstall procedure:

Here is a link to my complete uninstall/reinstall procedure located in the articles section of the Nexus

http://www.tesnexus.com/articles/article.php?id=240

 

Installing a bunch of mods all at once is asking for trouble. Install them just a few at a time and test them before installing more. The time you think you will save will be more than made up in trying to find the mod that is causing problems.

 

Be sure you have and are starting using OBSE and not the standard Oblivion launcher - launching from the OBMM is OK as it will always check to see if OBSE ins installed and start it first. The GOTY edition already has the latest patch IF you install the Shivering Isles part.

[scrivener07]

This has happened to me before. I resolve the issue by deleting the oblivion folder in your my games folder. its usually somewhere like this "C:\Users\(your user name)\Documents\My Games" and it contains your game saves so back them up delete the folder and start up oblivion again and exit. go back to where the folder you just deleted and oblivion should have built another one. drop your backed up save in there and see if that works. always keep your saves backed up somewhere. works for me problem free.

[bben46]

scrivener07, good advice. But instead of deleting the entire folder, find the Oblivion.ini in that folder (Not the one in the Oblivion folder where the game is installed) and just deleting that. Then your saved games will not be affected at all, and it will build a new Oblivion.ini the next time the game is started. It will probably reset all of your video settings to a default medium or low setting to start with.